Am 15.08.2012 21:13, schrieb Ryan Lane: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 15.08.2012 20:58, schrieb Mark Holmquist: >>>> Saves much time and efforts >>>> You don't use it, otherwise you wouldn't have asked that question. >>> Clearly--but could you elaborate more as to why it's helpful? (Thomas >>> is currently in #ethereditor having this conversation) >> OpenID was discussed in other threads; a discussion of pros and cons >> would be off-topic here. >> > I think it would be useful to have the openid extension enabled in > labs prototypes if wikimedia ran as a provider and the openid > extension was forced to use the wikimedia provider for login.
this has been filed back in 2008 as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631 <mailto:[email protected]>"Too facilitate verification of a Wikimedia user for external tools without the need to give the password to that tool, Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider." _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
